20th Century Boys: Beginning of the End

The story

In 1969, Kenji, an elementary school kid and his friends built a secret base during their summer holidays. They fantasized that they had to fight villains who were out to conquer the world and wrote them in the Book of Prophecies. Years later in 1997, Kenji becomes a convenience store manager and leads a regular life after giving up his dreams to become a rock star. His boring life is suddenly turned upside down when his old classmate dies mysteriously and an entire family in the neighbourhood disappears. At the same time, a religious cult and its mysterious leader, Friend emerges and a strange chain of events duplicating exactly the events described in the Book of Prophecies follow. Is this the beginning of the end of the world? Who is Friend?

In the same saga

20th Century Boys Collection

In release order

This film

20th Century Boys: Beginning of the End

2008

20th Century Boys 2: The Last Hope

2009

20th Century Boys 3: Redemption

2009

Cast

T Toshiaki KarasawaKenji Endô T Takako TokiwaYukiji T Teruyuki KagawaYoshitsune H Hidehiko IshizukaMaruo T Takashi UkajiMon-chan H Hiroyuki MiyasakoKeroyon K Katsuhisa NamaseDonkey F Fumiyo KohinataYamane K Kuranosuke SasakiFukubê S Shiro SanoYan-bô K Kanji TsudaMoroboshi T Takashi FujiiFriendship Party Promotor

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H Hanako YamadaFriendship Party Promotor E Etsushi ToyokawaOtcho N Nana KataseMiki Shikishima H Hitomi KurokiKiriko Endo M Mirai MoriyamaComic Artist A Arata Iura K Kai Ato S Shinya Kito